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Diffstat (limited to 'mm/Kconfig.debug')
| -rw-r--r-- | mm/Kconfig.debug | 43 |
1 files changed, 38 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/mm/Kconfig.debug b/mm/Kconfig.debug index afc72fde0f03..32b65073d0cc 100644 --- a/mm/Kconfig.debug +++ b/mm/Kconfig.debug @@ -70,6 +70,38 @@ config SLUB_DEBUG_ON off in a kernel built with CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG_ON by specifying "slab_debug=-". +config SLUB_RCU_DEBUG + bool "Enable UAF detection in TYPESAFE_BY_RCU caches (for KASAN)" + depends on SLUB_DEBUG + # SLUB_RCU_DEBUG should build fine without KASAN, but is currently useless + # without KASAN, so mark it as a dependency of KASAN for now. + depends on KASAN + default KASAN_GENERIC || KASAN_SW_TAGS + help + Make SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU caches behave approximately as if the cache + was not marked as SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU and every caller used + kfree_rcu() instead. + + This is intended for use in combination with KASAN, to enable KASAN to + detect use-after-free accesses in such caches. + (KFENCE is able to do that independent of this flag.) + + This might degrade performance. + Unfortunately this also prevents a very specific bug pattern from + triggering (insufficient checks against an object being recycled + within the RCU grace period); so this option can be turned off even on + KASAN builds, in case you want to test for such a bug. + + If you're using this for testing bugs / fuzzing and care about + catching all the bugs WAY more than performance, you might want to + also turn on CONFIG_RCU_STRICT_GRACE_PERIOD. + + WARNING: + This is designed as a debugging feature, not a security feature. + Objects are sometimes recycled without RCU delay under memory pressure. + + If unsure, say N. + config PAGE_OWNER bool "Track page owner" depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT @@ -154,8 +186,9 @@ config ARCH_HAS_DEBUG_WX config DEBUG_WX bool "Warn on W+X mappings at boot" depends on ARCH_HAS_DEBUG_WX + depends on ARCH_HAS_PTDUMP depends on MMU - select PTDUMP_CORE + select PTDUMP help Generate a warning if any W+X mappings are found at boot. @@ -180,18 +213,18 @@ config DEBUG_WX If in doubt, say "Y". -config GENERIC_PTDUMP +config ARCH_HAS_PTDUMP bool -config PTDUMP_CORE +config PTDUMP bool config PTDUMP_DEBUGFS bool "Export kernel pagetable layout to userspace via debugfs" depends on DEBUG_KERNEL depends on DEBUG_FS - depends on GENERIC_PTDUMP - select PTDUMP_CORE + depends on ARCH_HAS_PTDUMP + select PTDUMP help Say Y here if you want to show the kernel pagetable layout in a debugfs file. This information is only useful for kernel developers |